the worry is threatening to retaliate for an israeli air strike inside its territory while its ally iran says they'll be a repercussions over that time. also this hour as the french stop its military operation in mali as a success will bring you some chilling stories from this three week long battle against islam that. cia officer who blew the whistle on america's store for program and is now waiting to serve to and a half years in prison talks to us here about what he believes is behind his sentiments. on the wrong the wall this is our sea with me us hello and welcome to the program.

syria and iran us rushing in to return aid against israel for ras tricon syrian to have a tree serug names israeli warplanes hit a military research center near damascus killing two while the u.s. says they just started a military convoy heading for neighboring lebanon well she's policia is munching developments for us from tel aviv. the syrian ambassador to lebanon did say that it was not clear when ever tell you it would happen and that it was up to the powers that be to decide on such decisive action but he did say that it was an option and that it was and would be a surprise now the iranian deputy foreign minister has also stated that this israeli attack has serious implications for the israeli city of tel aviv and those are indeed quite harsh warnings what we understand from syria from syria sources is that the israelis hit a research center not far from the capital city of damascus and that at least two unsigned workers were killed there are also reports that the strike hit

a convoy of weapons that was making its way from syria to lebanon and now washington reportedly was warned by israel of its intention to strike inside syria this kind of comment coming from a high ranking american official who has spoken on condition that he not be named it is important to mention that a couple of months ago iran's revolutionary guard did say that assad had friends in the region who had not yet entered the fray the quote was that these friends were poised to strike out in case there was an intervention in syria but we have no comment yet from tel aviv there also has been no comment from washington moscow has said if indeed these raids did strike inside syrian territory it is a gross violation of the united nations charter. during an academic and political analyst mohammad marandi says a zero should take iran's warning of repercussions to his sleeve. but it's

important is that the united states knew about their strike before hand they did nothing about it the european union as usual so is silent about it there is no condemnation for killing syrians two for bombing the country even of course iran will defend syrian sovereignty the iranians have many means to hurt israel least and to punish the israelis it doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be involved directly they could. support countries or bodies that could could make life for israelis more difficult. france is hailing its military mission against islamist rebels in mali as a success but this three week long intervention has also created more havoc in the conflict own country and some training stories are emerging as local reporter gonzalo told r.t. . but the war became

a real nightmare for the people of this small city and in the sago region it was one of the first places bombed by french warplanes before more jihadist arrived sweeping south towards the capital bamako the french intervention left a pile of debris and ashes that's just the visible traces of the war they left it civilians who were left with the scars that will last a lifetime one family paid a deep price for this conflict against the islamist terrorists one of the family sons was killed by a jihadist soldier inside his own home. one brother was attacked by a group of militants the ridge children among them he started running and got back into our house but they followed him one of the children fired at him but minutes and then another insurgent shot him inside the house my brother fell and was riddled with bullets we believe his body in the house we couldn't bury him because we were afraid to go outside. afaik trust me this is just one example of the terror

that the conflict put in mali and civilians through plague and weakest the most no one was surprised when india bali once jihadist troops arrived it was discovered that the majority of the military were heavily armed child soldiers. and the french backed government forces are increasingly accused of atrocities during the conflict with the rebels and on l.t. dot com you will find some exclusive images already showing evidence in excuse me a war crimes by the troops. from people on the ground about how they are living through the western led battle against islam is. a former cia officer turned whistle blower sentenced to turned a half years behind bars waiting to start his jail time john kerry out here was the first official to publicly confirm the agency's use of boarding and condemn it as torture however he also becomes the first official to go to prison over the torture program so under a plea bargain deal he was convicted for revealing a covert officers identity talking to r.t.

he says he is true crime is speaking out against the government. first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have given me ten years in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing our civil liberties incrementally over the last decade to the point where we don't even realize how much of

a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on american citizens and intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just part of normal business. the idea that that our government would be using drone aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have been unthinkable and it's something now that happens every every so often every few weeks every few months and there is no public outrage i think this is a very dangerous development. so john kiriakou was also a guest on our big margins breaking the sets and he on our c don't miss day exclusive interview details of the case and its implications later today. do you think the real people who oversaw codified torture draw new obert organs zola's

donald rumsfeld shouldn't they be the one sitting in prison should be the ones and there are others even if you just put aside the people who actually did the day to day torture what about the people who conceived of the policy and who implemented the policy where the attorneys that papered over it with with crazed legal analysis or the man who who destroyed evidence of the torture in the tapes. the u.s. president barack obama's pick for the country's next defense secretary has gone out of his way to persuade his senate the senate has the right man for the job one time for his previous views on statements at the confirmation hearing chuck hagel made it clear he will act in accordance with white house policies if his candidacy is approved and artie is going there to check and listen to the session which brought

some heated discussion but little hope for change. chuck hagel bent backwards to show how mainstream his views are the senators kept accusing him of not being mainstream enough and they kept using the word mainstream over and over again during this hearing chuck hagel has walked back on a number of positions he had taken earlier he kept apologizing again and again and chuck hagel went to great lengths to show that he is in no way going to challenge washington's core foreign policy beliefs as one of the senators put it it was quite an exhausting hearing considering the senators were asking almost the same questions and roughly eighty percent of them had to do with chuck hagel previous statements on israel and iran there was so much mentioning of israel that at some point they were confirming him as secretary of defense for israel i couldn't count how many times he said all options are on the table with regards to iran again and again saying a strike on iran is an option an option that he had previously called irresponsible

by the way here's what chuck hagel kept repeating throughout the hearing get the united nations behind you get the international sanctions behind you keep military options on the table if the military option is the only option it's the only option one of the senators pointed out during the hearing that in a private conversation senator hagel recently told him that. burke and previously chuck hagel voted against sanctions but today's chuck hagel as we found out during this hearing is for sanctions to those who believe mr haye go was in favor of direct negotiations with iran as he had previously claimed he was he offered a correction a very big one he tried to blur his response as much as he could here's what he said i don't have a problem with engaging i think great powers engaging engagement is clearly in our interest that's not negotiation engagement is not appeasement engagement is not sure under so no direct negotiations with iran here's another example of how chuck

hagel had to walk back on some of his previous statements at one time he said and this is become a famous quote the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest of is world and of quote here's chuck hagel during this confirmation hearing noted that i. that i should have used another term and i'm sorry and i regret i mean do your use of intimidation. i should have used influence. i think would have been more appropriate i should not have said dumb or stupid. because i understand appreciate there are different views in these things it was like torture watching the hearing because it seemed as if the senators were not there to question chuck hagel but they were there to break him because they kept going back to his previous statements and pushing and pushing until he said what they wanted to hear and he

did it so whoever thought chuck hagel was going to offer a new outlook on u.s. foreign policy after this hearing would seriously doubt that. and of course we're always interested in your view on the topics we cover and you can have to r.t. dot com under vote in our online poll to let us know why you think hey google's stance on iran has become more hawkish and here are the options we all find out so the first one so of missing a strike on iran is a viable option and for him it's a genuine change of heart also is just a ploy to counter criticism of being anti israeli and so the said one his change of stars doesn't matter as he wouldn't have influence on iranian policy anyway and the last one it proves his own claim that no one can stand up to the jewish lobby so to speak and let's not have a look at how opinions has been divided have been divided so far and almost half of

you heart of our voters think that hey girls prove that no one in washington will stand up to the israeli so assertive you believe his opinion doesn't make any difference anyway. a little less just a third of you say that just a ploy to counter criticism that he isn't officially pro israeli to get the job and only a tiny minority. tiny minority thing that he has generate changed his position so you can go to our few dot com and do participate in our online vote and what have prompted the change in hey goals are a trick many experts believe even if he wants to change u.s. foreign policy he'll struggle to do so. when president obama was elected in two thousand and eight we you know the same kind of hope to ms and was there with shutting down get moment ending these wars and fighting the right kind of wars but then we find out when you know after the deal is done after the elections are over

the nomination process is over we continue with our war footing around the world no matter what the politicians come before those cameras and tell you what the key factors are that we need to take care of it be a social safety nets or the economy or or jobs being created in this country the united states will always have money for two things you can be rest assured bakers and bullets we already see the headlines coming out. the mainstream media talking about the sequester and how this is going to get our military we will have nonstop propaganda being a bombarded out of the people the fear of reducing the budget of the military so i'm absolutely confident that whoever is secretary of defense will have a very very loose pocketbook to spend to keep spending us into oblivion. still ahead for you this hour the conflict in the news is washing was a more and more cases of child abuse by priests hit the headlines.

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video for your media. free media r t v dot com. this is the welcome bag in germany washington turning that box on the counseling church where the number of attendees falling rapidly a perceived lack of action of a claims of child abuse is just one reason this man states drugged and investigation into alleged sexual abuse crimes committed by priests and you might find some of the details and piece of all of his reports disturbing. the abuse of trust the destruction of faith the theft of innocence. in one nine hundred seventy nine when i was invited to his house he locked the doors and forced me to drink what i now know was alcohol. he asked me what i thought of his penis which was

a record then the priest made me perform oral sex on him. the catholic church in germany is facing a crisis attendances dropped significantly over the past few years according to the central committee of german catholics one hundred eighty thousand parishioners stopped going to mass in twenty ten alone many citing church hierarchy unwillingness to do enough about claims of abuse like the ones made by wilfred the priest at the center of this particular scandal is now being moved to a different parish while this church where its alleged abuses took place remains closed to worshippers but just how difficult is it to bring a criminal prosecution in cases like this if those people go to court now it's very difficult to get to a sentence because the richness is sometimes died in between the memory has got lost and so those attempts to get to have

a trial usually fail christine pfeiffer had been in charge of an extensive study into abuse in the german catholic church dating back as far as ninety four to five his research claims that the church destroyed files on priests involved in abuse up to ten years also that twelve hundred victims were paid hush money not to reveal what happened to them he was dismissed after a dispute with a senior clergy a lot into may she would be made public the scandal that this research is no not going to be finished. it's causing problems to them as well now they're losing members because of the new headlines of the last few weeks there are those within the church that recognize the importance of transparency if lapsed catholics are to be brought back into the flock. a woman. really going to when we do not make things clear and there will always be an aftertaste something is being covered up this

will harm attempts to get people into church because it's a bad foundation for trust and all belief is based on trust and. for wilfrid that trust has been lost he says he will never set foot to the church a good he's committed to getting compensation for himself and those others who claim they were abused by people who were supposed to be in a position of responsibility peter all over r.t. germany. some other international news and bring at this hour an explosion has killed twenty five people and left more than one hundred injured at the mexico city headquarters of premix the state owned oil company that figures have been confirmed on the company's twitter account some people reportedly remain trapped inside the building local media say a gas leak i have caused the blast in september an explosion at the company's natural gas facility in northern mexico left thirty people dead.

politicians from across egypt's political spectrum how to renounce widespread violence saying that the protests across the country there grim and came to me saying attended by leaders of the muslim brotherhood as well as they has of the liberal and secular opposition movements it was called as president morsi cut short his trip to germany because of the ongoing unrest at home without securing any financial backing from berlin. up to thirty vehicles have been involved in a massive car crash in america at least three people have been killed and about twenty injured in detroit to children were among the dead police say the pileup happened due to poor weather conditions and slippery roads caused by have a snow fall. the u.k. prime minister is promising to stand by libya and improve its economy pledges of support come despite britain's. own economy going through a tough time david cameron has made a surprise visit to the north african country defined security warnings from his

own foreign off it's also his andrew father reports now on what's at stake in libya two years after the revolution did arrive initially very tight security and then he stressed that he wanted britain to try and beef up security in libya and try and help it improve its own economy there's no doubting that things have deteriorated in this country since twenty eleven when mr cameron last made his visit here just after the overthrow of colonel gadhafi the new libyan government is struggling with a lack of resources it's also struggling to its authority over militias and on top of this recently the british government admitted that there was a threat to its own embassy in tripoli and that it had advised british nationals to leave because of security concerns that he did coming from algeria he was trying to show that britain has support for this country and he also talked about the terrorist attack at the gas plant there which saw which saw thirty seven foreigners killed you mention that that was a reminder that what happens in other countries affects us at home too so i suppose

putting it simply he's trying to show that britain still cares about these two countries mr cameron does have his critics though there are those that claim that really all he's trying to do is protect britain's own interests after all libya and algeria are among the top five producing all countries in africa. and my colleague say discuss the u.k. oil interests in libya with queenie from a conservative think tank the. the reason for his visit there is is to show the support that britain and the u.k. government wants to give northern african countries that wish to tradition to democracy although not necessarily in military terms there are other ways we can give support libya algeria in that top five africa of oil producers together pumping out eighty five percent of the continent's black gold do you maintain that britain's interest in them has nothing to do with that then we are rich in this facing some economic tough times right now so are we moving back to north africa

for that certainly not british petroleum and other oil companies had interests in libya before. the colonel gadhafi but now that they own genes that hasn't changed is it easier for your government to go back and say well we've helped in the region changes so now we can come in and start talking about how we can work together again. it's more difficult to do business in libya after the revolt but. i think the important point is that whilst tony blair felt that he could deal with colonel gadhafi david cameron didn't feel that the united kingdom could acceptably go on dealing with a sponsor of terrorism terrorism very ambiguous term these days isn't it some syrian rebels are terrorists yet the west backs the cause where do we draw the line well al qaeda is clearly a terrorist organization and that is and the rev i think it's a way of i remade those comments he was he was referring specifically to. or

made those comments in light of what happened in algeria and that makes the point very clearly that british lives were lost in algeria. so there's not only threats to lives abroad but there's also a threat to lives at home because where al-qaeda training centers have been subdued in afghanistan they've now moved to northern africa. as always there's more news for your on line including on god that's as north korea literally imposes martial law urging its army to prepare for war so had to r.t. dot com to see if the korean peninsula is on the brink of a military conflict. also online for you internet users beware millions of devices are now in danger of being annis it picked is due to a software function that's been known about falls time.

whatever deep divisions between supporters and opponents of genetically modified food within the u.s. and around the world but while acts of its continue to pleasure giants adam i didn't get a shareholder in one of the leading american producers believes as long as such companies financially support politicians and the risk could be brushed under the carpet. these chemicals may be what's causing higher rates of cancer and thus far as nation nations across the globe we know that it causes tumors in rats that were fed in long term food studies last year i was it will speak during the meeting and this meeting is closed to the public and we one of the things are asking for is in the future this dispute live streamed people around the world care about what's going into the food they may not want to own monsanto stock i only bought stock so i could speak at the shareholder meeting the company knows already about there are genetically modified crops which many say food activists believe make us more

reliant on herbicides and chemicals that the company also sells the genome companies give heed massive donations to politicians on an annual basis they are very active in the political system so they spending tens of millions of dollars even hundreds of millions of dollars on elections. that it's not the politicians are not going to prioritize rejecting crops. deferential break for you saw special report all roads to cut a star to stay with us. to .

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